This is a Golang implementation of conway's game of life
This is my first real Golang program, I chose conway's game of life as a method of learning/getting familar with golang.
The Ebiten game library, a simple 2D game library was used for the visualisation componenet of the project, somewhat similar to Pygame for those coming from a python background.
To me, the most beautiful thing about conway's game of life, is how global complex patterns can emerge from such simple local rules a phenomena often termed Emergence.
This program has two modes a standard mode and an interactive mode
The standard mode is the default and it can be run by executing the main.go file: In this mode, the first generation of cells are randomly created. A less densely populated board can be created by modifying the density via a command line flag (lower number is more dense, default value is 10).
go run src/main.go
go run src/main.go --density 25
In the interactive mode, the user can draw the starting state of the cells using their mouse by left-clicking. Once the desired pattern of cells has been drawn a right-click will trigger the simulation. Pressing the middle-mouse-button will stop the currently running simulation, clear the board of all cells and return the user to a state where they can draw a fresh starting state.
go run src/main.go --interactive
